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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2019

The Developing Story of Predictive Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer.

Stergios Boussios, Mehmet Akif Ozturk, Michele Moschetta, Afroditi Karathanasi, Nikolaos Zakynthinakis-Kyriakou, Konstantinos H Katsanos, Dimitrios K Christodoulou, Nicholas Pavlidis

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
116citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

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56 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Stergios BoussiosAcute Oncology Assessment Unit, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, ME7 5NY, Gillingham, Kent, UK. stergiosboussios@gmail.com.
Mehmet Akif OzturkDepartment of Internal Medicine, Bahcesehir University School of Medicine, 34353 Istanbul, Turkey. ozturkakif@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1365-7944
Michele MoschettaDrug Development Unit, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, 93 Harley Street, London, W1G 6AD, UK. michelemoschetta1@gmail.com.
Afroditi KarathanasiAcute Oncology Assessment Unit, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, ME7 5NY, Gillingham, Kent, UK. a.karathanasi@nhs.net.
Nikolaos Zakynthinakis-KyriakouLeicester Diabetes Research Centre, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, LE5 4PW, UK. nikolaoszakynthinakis@gmail.com.
Konstantinos H KatsanosDepartment of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece. khkostas@hotmail.com.
Dimitrios K ChristodoulouDepartment of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece. dchristodoulou@gmail.com.
Nicholas PavlidisMedical School, University of Ioannina, Stavros Niarchou Avenue, 45110 Ioannina, Greece. npavlid@uoi.gr.
University of Ioannina · GRMedway NHS Foundation Trust · GBBahçeşehir University · TRNIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre · GBSarah Cannon Research Institute · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignancy worldwide. Surgery remains the most important treatment for non-metastatic CRC, and the administration of adjuvant chemotherapy depends mainly on the disease stage, which is still the strongest prognostic factor. A refined understanding of the genomics of CRC has recently been achieved thanks to the widespread use of next generation sequencing with potential future therapeutic implications. Microsatellite instability (MSI) has been suggested as a predictive marker for response to anti-programmed-cell-death protein 1 (PD-1) therapy in solid tumors, including CRC. It should be noted that not all cancers with MSI phenotype respond to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, highlighting the urgent need for even better predictive biomarkers. Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (

Indexed as

biomarkerscolorectal cancerprognostic and predictive markerstreatment resistance

Identifiers

PMID30736475
PMCPMC6463186
OpenAlexW2912893085

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